Ricky: Archive

Ever since I started paying attention, I’ve been outraged. Can’t say I wasn’t forewarned.

Oct 22nd

Whoops. Totally forgot.

I forgot about this thing. Honestly. Guess this speaks to how much I’ve disconnected from non-personal communication, incoming and outgoing. I’ve also super-connected to personal communication. All this and more when you email me, call me, stop me in person, or at the least gchat me.

Jul 22nd

Jul 1st

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Yeah, by posting this, I’m doing advertising for Iceland. I’m okay with that. This is awfully effective advertising.

Jun 4th

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The space program is totally awe-inspiring if only by its immense scale. That is great.

May 22nd

Cultural relativism is become much harder to sustain.

May 12th

May 5th

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Apr 30th

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Apr 23rd

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U.S. Flag Recalled After Causing 143 Million... →

lolwut?

Apr 15th

Apr 12th

Apr 2nd

Mar 31st

A beautiful display from NYT of the dead from Iraq... →

Mar 19th

Mar 6th

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Mar 4th

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Mar 4th

No big deal just that THE EARTH IS DIFFERENT NOW →

The axis of the earth has moved by about 8cm (presumably at sea level at the poles). The day, correspondingly, is 1.26 microseconds shorter. All this because of a devastating earthquake!

Mar 2nd

[on the closing ceremony] If the opening ceremony was any guide, we’ll likely see plenty of maple leafs, fake snow and surprise Canadians (hey, is that Donald Sutherland?) tonight. The NYT blogs are such a dirty pleasure.

Mar 1st

Feb 18th

Feb 17th

Feb 12th

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Stephen Colbert has started to do things only he can. Amazing things. Palin’s 2012 slogan was priceless [in context at the very least]: “Abandon all hope that anything will ever change”

Feb 9th

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Catuesday

You know what you didn’t know? That every single page on Amazon has an appended “<!— MEOW —>” at the end. I want to know who’s in charge of that.

Feb 9th

Feb 5th

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MTV Orders Season 2 of ‘Jersey Shore’ →

This is f’real.

Jan 30th

Frank Serpico, Police Officer Played by Al Pacino,... →

An American hero.

Jan 24th

Jan 13th

Antipodr →

I’m going to dig a whole to… a thousand miles off the coast of Australia.

Jan 12th

High School won't allow kids to protest ACLU, but... →

Jan 12th

Jeff Rubin Would Be Proud

If Weird Al doesn’t come out with a song called “Polka Face” on his next album, then I just don’t know nothing about Weird Al.

Jan 12th

Running from Camera →

“The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.”

Jan 7th

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An... →

This is precisely what makes MIT pretty great. It is what makes it a pity that UChicago is so impractical — it blocks out hysterical things like this. That said, we did create a student-made breeder reactor in a shed for a scavenger hunt. Which is pretty good.

Jan 7th

Dec 29th

Dec 23rd

recursive titles are recursive titles are

Just search Google for recursion, and if you don’t get the joke, read about 25 pages of Gödel, Escher, Bach and get back to me.

Dec 20th

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I would definitely play the Sims if it were like this, but it’s not, so that your reason. Edit: The more I watch this, the more truly extraordinary I think it is. It’s become something it wasn’t at all when I first saw it. I feel like Eric Wareheim, who directed it, did a beautiful job of letting his style inform the video but not dictate it, which happens with a lot of other...

Dec 19th

Hot Tub Time Machine →

is going to be a funny movie. I don’t know why you insist that it won’t.

Dec 19th